Improbable Quote by Anonymous

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with…

— Abraham Lincoln

“In truth, the situation was worse than they realized, and no one perceived this as clearly as Washington. Seeing things as they were, and…

— David McCullough

The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.

— David McCullough

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Washington is unpredictable these days.

— Steve Wynn

One of the reasons Americans hold Washington in such low regard is the perception that nothing ever gets done. Whatever the issue - no…

— Ken Cuccinelli

...dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a slight hope…

— Noam Chomsky

“In many ways, after many decades, many billions of dollars, and countless advances in technology, the federal government’s basic plan to escape a catastrophe…

— Garrett M. Graff

We can't change the way Washington works unless we first change how Congress works.

— Barack Obama

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

— David Harsanyi

In order to change Washington, we're going to have to change the people that we send there.

— Jason Kander

There were two unpleasant surprises [about Washington]. One was the inertia of Congress, the length of time it takes to get a complicated piece…

— Jimmy Carter